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NC State’s Institute for Advanced Analytics welcomes students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including some who enter the MSA program with significant previous professional experience. This video features two such individuals, with Carlos Castillo ’24 — who holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA and worked in macroeconomics at Continue reading 10 Minutes with Ana Maria Echeverri
Upon completing an undergraduate degree in linguistics and cognitive science at Scripps College in 2015, Shalina Omar spent a year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Indonesia. She then earned two degrees from NC State: an MA in English with a linguistics concentration in 2019 and an MS in Continue reading 10 Minutes with Shalina Omar
Like many NC State MSA grads who held previous advanced degrees, Kasia Michalska ’20 had multiple professional pivot points. She earned BS and MS degrees in economics in her native Poland, where she worked as an economist for an NGO and later for the Polish prime minister. She then earned Continue reading Ten Minutes with Kasia Michalska ’20
Catherine LaChapelle enrolled in the MSA program directly following the completion of her undergraduate degrees in political science and women’s and gender studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Post-MSA, the Cary, North Carolina native sought a change of scenery and the bright lights of New York City. She spent nearly three years Continue reading Ten Minutes with Catherine LaChapelle ’16